to whom Rodriguez is a special adviser. Billy Corben, the director of the recent documentaryScrewball, which digs into the Biogenesis scandal that ensnared Rodriguez, has put it in stronger terms: “We haven’t seen a resurrection like this since Jesus Christ.” ...
The Nobel Prize is a little like that. The “Team” in question is the Swedish Academy (of Literature). They collection of players not yet in the league is literally everyone on earth, who has yet to be awarded the Nobel, is living, and who wrote something. (Literally, they have award...
always, a particular stance on and posture toward reality. If postmodernity's great, perhaps signal achievement is to have crashed the door of "objectivity," historians (along with academics in allied disciplines) wishing to push past current disciplinary boundaries face what amounts...
Gamillscheg suggests a connection to Old French argoter“to cut off the stubs left in pruning,” with a connecting sense of “to get a grip on.” The best English equivalent is perhaps cant. The German equivalent is Rotwelsch, literally “Red Welsh,” but the first element of that migh...
Offendis the Gk wordskandalizō. This is the root of our wordto scandalize,and I imagine it brings up a tremendous amount of negative imagery in most, but it also means toentrap,tripup(figuratively to cause tostumble[transitively] orenticeto sin, To fall away from the gospel of Jesus...
She has just found a new apartment, and is tempted to let her latest boyfriend, Frank, move in with her. Instead, she finds a tenant: The flamboyant, fun-loving Camilla, who shares Annaâs views on love and commitment. For both of them, itâs all about fun. The ...
“tasted like cow waste” to Kyle. Oh my God, it suddenly occurred to her. This is what Rocky Flats is about. Ground-water contamination, down to the water table. “A light bulb came on,” is how she recalls it. “I knew why I was on the grand jury. I never will forget that ...
Perhaps the biggest difference between the start of that legendary Red Sox season and this current one is that there was very little social media in those days. MySpace had only debuted the previous year, and while Facebook was launched one month prior to the start of the Sox season, it ...
Meg Ryanis set to break her eight-year acting hiatus with the upcoming filmWhat Happens Later. "Sometimes there's a question of: Will they be together? Will they not be together? For that reason, [What Happens Later] sort of evolves the rom-com genre just a little bit. It's also ab...
Meg Ryanis set to break her eight-year acting hiatus with the upcoming filmWhat Happens Later. "Sometimes there's a question of: Will they be together? Will they not be together? For that reason, [What Happens Later] sort of evolves the rom-com genre just a little bit. It's also ab...